Areas of Specialization
Decision Science
Students in the Decision Science area focus on managing risk and developing "application-driven theory" in response to real-world problems. The faculty works on decision making under uncertainty; quantitative finance and numerical methods for solving financial models; risk management in the area of insurance; and on statistical models, machine learning, data analytics, and data mining.
Information Systems
Students in the Information Systems area focus on understanding the impact of information technology on individuals, organizations, and society. The faculty works in areas such as economics of digital products, digital marketplaces, social media, strategic IT management, business value of IT, virtual teams and collaboration technologies, healthcare IT, data mining and business analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things and design science using methods including econometric analysis, machine learning, experiments, qualitative research, and mathematical modeling.
Operations Management
Students in the Operations Management area learn how to develop and apply analytical and empirical models and methods to address strategic and operational issues in areas such as supply chains, manufacturing, services, healthcare, sustainability, not-for-profit operations, pricing, revenue management, project management, and product design. To conduct research in these areas, students are trained in various methodologies including optimization, economics, stochastic models, statistics, econometrics, and simulation.
Statistics
Students in the Statistics area focus on the theory and methods of statistics with a special emphasis on business applications. Students are exposed to both Bayesian and classical approaches to inference and modern computational statistical tools. Several of the courses taken by students in the area are shared with the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences. The main difference between the programs is the strong emphasis on business applications.
Preparation and Qualifications
Prospective applicants are required to hold a four-year bachelor's degree (not necessarily in the area of study) or equivalent prior to starting the program.
See Admissions for further information.
Placement
We prepare you to become an intellectual leader. The primary goal of the Texas McCombs Ph.D. program is to prepare students for academic careers. Over the last five years, McCombs IROM Ph.D. alumni have been placed at:
Paul Cronin |
2020 |
Senior Manager of Data Science, The Home Depot |
Parshuram Hotkar |
2020 |
Assistant Professor, Indian School of Business |
Haris Krijestorac |
2020 |
Assistant Professor, HEC Paris |
Xiaofan Li |
2020 |
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore |
Yixuan Liu |
2020 |
Assistant Professor, Purdue University |
Quan Zhang |
2020 |
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University |
Yuxin Zhang |
2020 |
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University |
Jared Fisher |
2019 |
Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley |
Sebastian Souyris |
2019 |
Postdoc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Long Zhao |
2019 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Analytics and Operations, National University of Singapore |
Shi Ying Lim |
2018 |
Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore |
Vishwakant Malladi |
2018 |
Assistant ProfessorIndian School of Business |
Chinmoy Mohapatra |
2018 |
Operations Research and Analytics, BNSF Railways |
David Puelz |
2018 |
Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
Abhishek Roy |
2018 |
Assistant Professor, Temple University |
Changseung Yoo |
2018 |
Assistant Professor, McGill University |
Emre Yucel |
2018 |
Data Insights Analyst, HomeAway |
Samuel Blazek |
2017 |
Information Systems Technologist, IST Research Corp |
Yanzhen Chen |
2017 |
Assistant Professor, HKUST Business School |
Xiao Han |
2017 |
Assistant Vice President of Quantitative Analytics, Barclays |
Gorkem Ozer |
2017 |
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland |
Shun-Yang Lee |
2016 |
Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut |
Shannon Provost |
2016 |
Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College |
Dongyang Wang |
2016 |
Data Scientist, JD.com |
Patrick Downs |
2015 |
Operations Research and Systems Analysis Division Chief, United States Army |
Zhuoxin Li |
2015 |
Assistant Professor, Boston College |
Hiroki Sano |
2015 |
Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University |
Vivek Vasudeva |
2015 |
Lead Operations Analyst, Turner Broadcasting Systems |
Current Students and Job Market Candidates
Decision Science
Rohit Arora
Feihong Hu
Yizhe Huang
Zhi Wang
Information Systems
Vasundhara
Wanxue Dong
Ruijiang Gao
Tianjian "TJ" Guo
Zhuoran Jiang
Aditya Karanam*
Yunyi Li
Haoyuan Liu*
Junjie (Henry) Qian*
Nicholas Wolczynski
Cenying (Tracy) Yang*
Operations Management
Fiorentia “Fiori” Anglou
Julius Barth
Hale Erkan
Jingyao Huang
Paola Martin
Youyi Qiu
Tan Wang
Zijian (Jacob) Zeng*
Pengfei Zhang*
Statistics
Alek Dimitriev
Pedro Filipini Dos Santos
Yilin He
Shentao Yang
*indicates job market candidates